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Billionaire Oil Baron Tillerson Is Out as Secretary of State, Anti-Gay “Traditional Families” Fanboy Mike Pompeo Is In
In a stunning clinic on how to make a major state decision with global implications with less gravitas and forethought than the finale of The Bachelor, Trump announced yesterday via Twitter that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was being fired and replaced by Mike Pompeo, who has a concerning anti-LGBT record and sounds a lot like Mike Pence!
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #16
“Out beyond ideas of likable and unlikable comments there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
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“Vida” Episode 105 Recap: Chingonas and Chillonas, Badasses and Cry Babies
“Emma’s grief; her inherited, internalized homophobia; and her sexual frustrations — they are all tangled together. And that’s real, because in life how can you tell? Where does one pain stop and another begin? There’s no easy box to check or line to draw.”
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TV Team Roundtable: Our Favorite Lesbian and Bisexual Girls Behaving Badly
“My armor was a smile, Santana’s was an insult. And bless her for it.”
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Autostraddle’s Favorite and Least Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of 2018
“Is this how cis white dudes feel all the time?”
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TV Team Roundtable: Just Some “Jane the Virgin” Petramos True Believers Over Here
“Nothing the show will throw at me will ever doubt my faith in the foundation of their love. NOTHING!! So don’t even try it, Jane the Virgin. This is an official warning.”
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Lesbian and Bisexual Women of History Who Were Obsessed With Their Dogs, Part 2
What further revelations lurk in our woefully unexplored queer pupper past? Find out literally right now, as we continue our historical adventures with gal’s best pal!
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #22
“All horror is queer culture, as is Halloween as you correctly stated, and the 1970s in general, AND all final girls are queer culture in a very specific way that can only be discussed when you’re extremely high during a full moon.”
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Carrying Heavy Shit: Teaching and Unteaching Gender in the Wilderness
“There’s an easily accessible narrative in wilderness travel, to pretend we’re living outside of society, and to strive to create a better version of it. The temptation to argue that “x doesn’t really matter out here” rears its head in all of the usual places: race, socioeconomics, gender, age. What I’ve come to struggle with in the canoe, and years later, is which way to go. To continue my first argument, to dismantle gender, or to teach gender – to teach what it means to be a strong, dirty woman, to ask my co-instructor to teach positive masculinity.”
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Drawn to Comics: “Bingo Love” Is a Black Queer Romance That Lasts a Lifetime and Will Make Yours Better
Everyone who’s been clamoring for a romance comic about queer Black women written by a Black woman and with art by women has gotten exactly what they want with “Bingo Love.”
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Lesbian Married Couple Battle South Africa’s Homophobic Dept. of Home Affairs Over Spousal Visa
South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has come under fire from LGBTQ activists and community members for discriminating against LGBTQ people in their processes.
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Midterm Elections Kicked Off in Texas Yesterday; Here Are All the Queer Women Who Kicked Ass
Queer women of color dominated the Texas primary elections!
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You Need Help: You Want to Have Sex But Also Sex Is a Lot Wow So Complicated
You and your girlfriend don’t have to have sex unless you both want to have sex, no matter how long you’ve been dating. But also if you DO wanna have sex while respecting your history of trauma, here are some tips!
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“Celeste” Is a Very Difficult Video Game for People Who Know What It’s Like to Have Something to Prove
Celeste sets out to climb a mountain and learns a whole lot about herself along the way.
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Vida’s Non-Binary Latinx Actor Ser Anzoategui Already Knows Their Show Will Be Your New Favorite
Vida’s out non-binary actor Ser Anzoategui gave Autostraddle an one-on-one interview about the show, the importance of queer Latinx representation in front of and behind the camera, and even sang a little Selena for the heck of it. You want this!
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New York, 02/04: Queer Women’s Writers’ Group
The first meeting of a queer women’s writers group. All levels welcome.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 48, August 2018
“for a second i was like…………….did i break this channel
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Building From Small Moments
Let’s talk about those really tiny really good things that happened to you this week!
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TV Team Roundtable: How We Handle TV That Breaks Our Hearts (Or Makes Us Want to Break the TV)
Here’s how we handle TV that lets us down, the shows we think successfully turned it around, and our ultimate dealbreakers.
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Monday Roundtable: The Lifelong Journeys of Our Beloved Childhood Stuffed Animals
“I had two stuffed animal bear friends as a child. Pretty tight crew, I know, but two bears was enough as I also had an imaginary friend who was an adult woman that I had to entertain. I was only one child!”